TELE -ROCK1, ISLAND AKGUS. MONDAY, SEPTEMJiEH 9, 1889. i 1 I; ii i i! 5 TOE BUILDING BOOM. - What Rock Inland Will Witness ta this Line. rrnkakilltr f Tkree Xrw BiIim Hlka aa Other lamtBrau f aalataatlai;atar..Rats)4 Ball Tbe building enterprise which the A no us describe last week and which la to Involve one of the largest banking houiea of lh city and tbe various secret society organizations. U training ground constantly and there ia every reason to believe that not only it, but two more equally aa substantial and creditable buildings will be rrrcted early neit spring. Mitchell A Lyn.lc, aa the Aitaua has here tofore publ ihed, have slated their deter mination to rebuild their block facing on Second avenue and East and West Seven tec nth street, while it is almost certain that Mr. Torler Skinner will construct a handsome block at the northeast corner of Second avenue and Eighteenth street. He has said nothing as yet, but it is known he is thinking a heap and when he does that ther...

wrws3.'paiy Sock Daily Argus land -i " si-- M . 1 it'" VOL. KXVIl. NO 270 KOCK ISLAND, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 18S9. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IT is very annoying when in the bath to drop the soap and have to feci for it. The Ivory Soap floats, and is without exception the most luxurious soap for bathing ; it lathers freely and is easily rinsed off, leaving a sense of cleanliness and comfort attainable by no other means. A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the Ivory's" they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it. Copyright 1886, by Procter A Gamble. THE MOLINE WAGON. Jhe Moline Wagon Co., BOLISF, Manulacturers ol FARM, SPRING and FREIGHT WAGONS Aradmplrte1lMr PLATFORM ud other .rhr Waroc. nrpwlally adapted to lb weatora I 1i . of snprrwr wnrkmabip uil flnitth lliaftracrl -rtra Lint free on MK-Uon H the MoLlft K Aliii bt forr purrhaaing. sj...

THE BOCKS ISLAND AHGUS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1889. THE DAILY AHGUS JOHN W- POTTER. TCKSDAY, SlfTtMBll 10. 1889. The Union is enterprising only In lying. It can do that to the Queen's tut. Nix months of Harrison's adminlstra Uon shows him op In a bad light. If he dwarfs as much in proportion in the next three and a half years he will rattle In the presidential cbair like beans in a bladder. Speaking about falsehoods, the Union takes the cake as the champion liar when it said that "Bom" Wells "perilod his own life that the life of the nation might be saved." The yahoo knew this was a lie when he wrote It, and if he didn't be could have referred to the biography of Mr. Wells published in the Amas. Tna Union says the A Rous tells fiat falsehoods when It Buys that it was the Intention to make Wells deputy sheriff in cane of Morgan's election in 1886, and also that he said there was no chance of Gent's election. It the yahoo has sense enough to read the article as it appeared, be will n...

TELE -ROCKC ISLAND AUG US. TUES DA Y , SEPTEMBER 10, 1889. R. E. BAILEY'S STORY. Th Maaar Sfaoy IMvarre Malta A4 treawea) tha Pabli 'arralac Hi Marital RelatlaaaMtraaKe Areas. tlaaa. Editor Aaatra: Hock Island, Sept. 7. 1880. la con nection with a divorce tail I bare pend inn la the bt. Itus court and a suit mi wife caused brought io this city and one la Davenport, It baa teemed proper to try one side of the cases in the newspapers. Advantage ha bee a taken In my absence by these articles appearing wben I was ft re hundred miles from here, and as I bare not seen the articles until today. I witth to say the statement as they appear to me Daily baton or July 17 last, are false In nearly every particular. In the first place the article states I married an estimable young lady of Muscatine county, Iowa, with considerable money and aooo spent it in dissipation. I learned sometime after I had married her that I bad been deceived in many wavs. 1 not only found that site was almost a physic...

JL TECS BOCK ISLAND ARGU8, WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 11, 1889. THE DAILY AllGUS JOHN W- POTTER. Wkdhesdat, September 11. 1889. A pension claimant fit this county, whose claim wak reported upon adverse ly, received a statement to that effect dated Aug. 28. 1889, while Tanner waa in Milwaukee, with John C. Black's name signed to It aa pension commissioner. In addition to the fact that the present pen sioa department wants to show as many favors to deserters as to faithful soldiers, it assumes that the old soldiers art fools enough not to tanw who Is at the head of the pension department when an uns favorable decision Is rendered. The let ter will be remalled today with an in quiry as to whether John C. Black is still in office. rekln Timet. Tko ebllltate Mrplaa. The public debt statement issued lately affords considerable food for thought. It shows that the public debt increased six millions during Aagnst. The expendi tures during August were thirty-eight million against twenty-four milli...

TILE T3QQKC ISLAND AKGUS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889. THE SPECIAL SESSION. Tit Cltjr C'eaaril IerTei that the Avri ars4 Mhall k Uai. ftrii I.sat Klakt'a Meettag. lOfllclal Report. ClTT COUNCIL UoOat, ItOCK IsLAND, Sept. 10. The city council met in special session at 8 p. m., Mayor McConochle presiding and all the aldermen present. The clerk rend the call of the meeting, signed by Aldermen Hampton, Negus and Larkin, to consider the advisability of lowering the present ft rade on Second avenux from West Seventeenth street to the Intersection of Second avenue and Sixteenth street, and Alderman Negus read a petition of property holders on the avenue for a uniform grade between these streets, and moved that the petition te gran tea. Engineer Taddock was called upon for information and explanation on the pro posed grade. On rrolion of Alderman Hchroeder the city attorney was instruc ttd to draw up an ordinence to change the present grade established on Second avenue, between Sixteenth ...

THE HOCK? ISLAND ARGUS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12s ray THE DAILY ARGUS JOHN W. POTTER. TlIOHSDAT. 8lCrTKMBK 12. 1888. Tiik Ninth New York district, now un represented by reason of tbe death of nan. 8. S. Cos, usually five 9,000 dem ocratic majority, so there U no question as to the politics of his suoressor. No democratic paper Is so severe on Pension Commissioner Tanner as the great republican Philadelphia Prtu. It says without any circumlocution that he has "a loose and lawless tongue," "lacks common sen no," Is guilty of "truculent and silly escapades,'' and has created "a universally bad impression of his reckless aod Impulsive procedure." Maiionk has two sons who are chips of the old Mock, lie has billeted both on the treasury, one as a deputy United State marshal and the other as deputy collector of internal revenue to the chief chosen by him. lie will make no ex ruse for preferring his boys to the poli tlcian who would like to occupy their place. He believes in taking care of 'n...

THE 'ROCK ISLAND AllGUS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMliEll 12, 1889. BIYEBSIDE Cook Stoves Ranges, RIVERSIDE OAK STOVES, Boynton Celebrated Furnaces, MASON & DAVIS' Wrought Steel Ranges- and Steel Dome Furnaces. ?7Esti mates for Heating and Ventilating furnished on application. 1617 Second avenne, STATIONERY. A. Fine OF Etchings, Engravings And Statuary Suitable for Wedding Presents, at KINGSBURY & SONS, 1705 Secend Avenue. tdgTCall and see them. to W K H O r I WINDOW REFRIGERATORS I y In competition with the Leading Refrigerators of the United States received the highest award for economy of ice, using only 12.17 as ranch ice as its best compet i tor and 9.17 as much a9 one of its would be competitors. THE ALASKA: poiu-' the only provision charutier tree (mm odors produces a dry cold air which no ohter can equal, and has preserved fresh meats three weeks in the hottest weather. Produces better results with less ice than any other Refrigerator. The flues of the do not require cleaning a...

THE -ROCK ISTjANI AHGUS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMJiEli L2, 1889. TIIK WOODMEN VAU. Th TraaHle In the Ilea Ofllre-Tke Oflletal Ortui Ktarjr. Tie Ktho, tbe official organ of the Modern Woodmen of America, In apeak log of the attempt nkji to abstract pa pera from the Elgin office, says: J. C. Root, head counsel, was absent from the city attending a meeting of the executive counsel at Fulton. Neighbors Fiah and II. J. Hoot were also at Fulton The olllre was closed, access was only obtained by entering from a aide door. the key of which was Ml with K. R Fralick. who has an office in the same tiu'ilillng. . Two stenographers were inside en gaged in copying some work when Dr McKinney and II. C Agnew put in an appearance, nr. Agnew re pre stinted liimaelf to be Mr. Grimes of Peoria, III , am) requested Fralick to let them Into the office. lie very prompt ly refused as Mr. I loot and his clerks were out of the city. Afler waiting about for neyrral hours a writ of replevin was obtained, aiid tlx) doo...

THE BOCK ISLAND AIIGUS, FKID AY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1889. THE DAILY AIIGUS JOMW W. POTTER. FRIGHT. 8 KFTK1TB ER 13. 1889. TI1K PROPER GRADE. Tk Hayar'a Reply tm tkn Oppaalilaa ta the laprtTraral-A Teat The PavlaK Operation. This morning Mayor McConocblo vent the appended communication to the property holders petitioning for a veto to the ordinance reestablishing the Second avenue grade between Sixteenth and West Seventeenth streets, and setting forth his reasons for declining to comply.. The ' mayor states his ground for refusing to interfere with the council's action very plainly: Mayou". Orrin, ' I Rix k Nl.hi, III,, tvpt. 12. tW. t To Dnrlit Don nml Huina men, property owner on Hernnit avenue between Nlxteeutli and Seven teenth Klreeta. Uknti.kmkn: I have carefully consld ered all the objections raised by you in opposition to lowerine the grade on Heo ond avenue. I believe every point at Issue raised by you was riiac'iaaeri by the city council pending the paaaaco of the ordinance. The...

THE HOCK lSTiANO AUG US. FRIDAY, SEPTEMUElt 18, 1889. EIYEESIDE Cook Stoves Ranges, RIVERSIDE OAK STOVES, Boynton Celebrated Furnaces, MASON & DAVIS' Wrought Steel Ranges and Steel Dome Furnaces. fST'Esti mates for Heating and Ventilating famished on application. 1C17 Second avennn, STATIONERY. A. Finc.Line OK Etchings, Engravings And Statuary . Suitable for Wedding Presents, at KINGSBURY & SONS, in W ft H O t57Call and see them. WINDOW THREE POINTS WORTH CONSIDERING. 1st. We make only the finest quality of work and that at popular prices. 2d. We guarantee satisfaction. ltd. Our Gallery contains more and hetter Instru ments, Back-grounds, and all appliances for making twice over, than all the other galleries in the city combined. RASMUSSEN, N. E. Cor. Eighteenth Street and Second Avenue. SAVE -BUY- hoes and OF- The Davenport Shoe Co., COU. BIIADY AND SECOND, Davenport, Iowa. CSTKock Island people are invited to make our store head quarters while in the city. Remember the pla...

4 ;&yaiSUUSto ISLAND ILY 1 ; I' VOL. HXVii. NO 274 ROCK ISLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, ISS9 PRICE FIVE CENTS. naaviaawaawautaiMi, .gaiswTwetffl ROGK Da Argus t A ITER EXERCISE. When men and maidens seek the sport They find around the tennis court. Or when upon the diamond field Their bats the champion players wield. When walks, or rides, or bending oars, Bring perspiration from the pores, Then people all should bear in mind The best and purest soap to find. Eor after some such exercise The system most in danger lies, Absorbing then both swift and sure The poisons found in soaps impure. And those who keep for face and hands Or general use as time demands, The Ivory Soap, 'need have no fear From exercise throughout the year. s A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the ' Ivory j" they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for " Ivory ,: Soap and insist upon getting it. Cop...

THE DAILY ARGUS JOHN W. POTTER. Saturday, Bei-tkmrbk 14. 1889. In The language of the Chicago Times the democrats of New Jeney, like the democrat of Ohio, stand unoqulvocablv by the principle of tariff reform. The democrats of Pennsylvania take the same stand. There Is no repining oyer the defeat of last November, no hint of a purpose to turn back. Pennsylvania and Jersey are manufacturing states. Ohio contains the wool growers, who bare al ways made under Delano's leadership the greatest ado when free wool has been broached. Local sentiment and appar ent local interest 4I0 not estrange the democrats from the advocacy of the broad; national principle that a tariff for revenue only Is the only tariff congress should lay. Protection for protection's sake Is a vicious class and sectional leg (station. The democracy everywhere is faithful, notwithstanding the threats and warnings and appeals of democrats of the Randall stripe. The Mavmpart m Hark .! Mar. Supl. Schnitger is completing th...

-T"a HUUii&se i'wiiitwitnir-iTriiirri'Mea THE -ROCK ISLAND AUG US, SATURDAY, SEPTEM13E11 14, 189 1.1 - '-.-:':a.i.T..vj.-. EIYERSIDE Cook Stoves j- Ranges, RIVERSIDE OAK STOVES, Boynton Celebrated Furnaces, MASON & DAVIS' ' Wrought Steol Ranges tT'Estimatesfor Heating and Ventilating furnished on application. 1617 Second avenne, STATIONERY. A Pine 'OF- Etchings, Engravings And Statuary Suitable for Wedding Presents, at KINGSBURY & SONS, xn H O CSnCall and see them. WINDOW ALA IREFRIGERATORS In competition with the Leading Refrigerators of the United States received the higtst award for economy of ice, nsing only 12.17 as much ice as its best compet itor and 9.17 as much as one of its would be competitors. :THE ALASKA: posse, the only provision chamber free from odors, produces dry cold air which no ohter can ejual. and has presorted fresh meats three weeks in the hottest weather. Produces better result with less ice than any other Refrigerator. The flues of the do not re...